Mastodawn

I’m really thinking of getting a hybrid job in either #Seattle or #Portland so I can stay where I am in eastern Oregon.

So if any of you knows a #developer group in those two areas I’d love to hear about it so I can start networking over there.

#iOSDeveloper #softwareengineering

Ido Green 3h ago

Unlock WhatsApp Data with Local Analytics Dashboard

Most people think of WhatsApp as “just messaging.”

But after years of conversations, support threads, customer discussions, team coordination, and random life moments… it quietly becomes one of the richest personal datasets you own.

So I built wacrawl-ui — a local analytics dashboard for WhatsApp archives generated by wacrawl.

The idea is simple:

Your data stays local
No cloud sync
No browser extension
No scraping APIs
No “AI magic” uploading your chats somewhere

Just a fast local dashboard on top of SQLite.

What’s inside:

Full-text search (FTS5) – It’s working quite fast. Even on ~100k messages.
Messaging activity analytics
Contact insights
Media browsing
Response-time patterns
Word clouds
Group activity stats
Read-only local API
React + Vite frontend
Express backend
Zero external dependencies once running – You only need to make sure you run ‘wacrawl sync‘ before.

A few things I found interesting while building it:

SQLite is still absurdly powerful
People underestimate what you can do locally with FTS indexes and good schema design.

“Local-first” UX matters more than ever
We’ve normalized uploading deeply personal data to random SaaS products. We should challenge that assumption.

Personal analytics is an untapped category
Not surveillance. Not ad targeting.
Tools that help you understand your own data.

Read-only architectures reduce risk dramatically
The app intentionally avoids mutation flows. That constraint simplified security and reliability decisions across the stack.

The whole thing runs with one line:

npx wacrawl-dashboard@latest

No complicated setup.

Still early, but I think there’s a broader shift happening toward:

local AI – Ollama for the win.
local analytics – secure, private and handy.
local search – that works fast.
user-owned datasets – It’s not for everyone, but it’s useful.

Well, that future feels healthier.

Feel free to check the repo: github.com/greenido/wacrawl-ui and contribute.

Be strong.

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#dashboard #Developer #JS #LLM #localAi #whatsapp

Oleh Husiev 4h ago

Created design for share posting streak cards and started building components. Also added options to modify parts of the cards before sharing them.

#buildinpublic #saas #development #software #developer #marketing #ui

SmartGit 7h ago

Why did Linus Torvalds create Git? 🔥

Most devs don’t know the real story 😱 Vote below!

#Git #SmartGit #GitTips #Programming #Coding #Developer #100DaysOfCode #Linux #TechHistory

	Move Linux to web server
	Build graphical patch tool
	Replace BitKeeper (license)
	Standardize pull requests

Poll ends at May 28 at 9:56am.

Audio Developer Conference 10h ago

ADC Japan Speaker: Takeshi Kuwahara

Hardware DSP Asset Inheritance and Evolution: Development of DSP Assembly Automatic Conversion Software for MONTAGE M Compatible Software Synthesizers

June 1-3, Akihabara UDX, Tokyo
https://audio.dev/adc-japan-26/

#audio #developer #synthesizer #DSP